Aihe Wang. Cosmology and Political Culture in Early China.(Book Review)

From: China Review International | Date: March 22, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000). xiv, 241 pp. Hardcover $54.95, ISBN 0-521-62420-7.

In this ambitious and wide-ranging book, Aihe Wang examines the interplay between cosmology and politics from the Shang era through the Han dynasty. She endeavors to show how cosmology and empire "were formed by a common dialectical process" (p. 2), or "how cosmology and the imperial formation were mutually productive" (p. 3). In so doing, Wang aspires "to bring the history of early China ... into general theoretical discussions about culture and power" (p. 10). But underlying ...

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